Article ID: | iaor20105595 |
Volume: | 58 |
Issue: | 4-Part-1 |
Start Page Number: | 998 |
End Page Number: | 1011 |
Publication Date: | Jul 2010 |
Journal: | Operations Research |
Authors: | Shen Zuo-Jun Max, Ouyang Yanfeng, Cui Tingting |
Reliable facility location models consider unexpected failures with site-dependent probabilities, as well as possible customer reassignment. This paper proposes a compact mixed integer program (MIP) formulation and a continuum approximation (CA) model to study the reliable uncapacitated fixed charge location problem (RUFL), which seeks to minimize initial setup costs and expected transportation costs in normal and failure scenarios.